Best Value Tower Defense Games Under $10
The Tower Defense games on Steam games under $10 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1Dungeon Defenders$0.03/1hr96h90.57%93.09%
- 2GemCraft - Chasing Shadows$0.04/1hr50h88.16%94.90%
- 3Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense$0.04/1hr23h93.04%97.25%
- 4Bloons TD 6$0.05/1hr105h96.96%97.18%
- 5Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)$0.06/1hr34h93.72%97.48%
- 6Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.06/1hr120h85.84%86.28%
- 7Mindustry$0.06/1hr62h92.97%95.73%
- 8Wall World$0.08/1hr13h88.19%90.56%
- 9Rock 'N' Roll Defense$0.09/1hr6h85.72%87.07%
- 10Kingdom Two Crowns$0.09/1hr22h89.18%90.18%
- 11Rusted Warfare - RTS$0.09/1hr27h90.33%96.33%
- 12Stronghold HD (2012)$0.10/1hr12h90.76%95.53%
- 13最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect$0.10/1hr41h83.56%52.93%
- 14The Last Spell$0.12/1hr52h88.78%91.40%
- 15Craft The World$0.12/1hr38h87.43%88.40%
- 16Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense$0.14/1hr28h91.44%96.68%
- 17The Riftbreaker$0.16/1hr57h88.87%90.34%
- 18Cluckmech Oasis$0.16/1hr30h86.01%88.28%
- 19Night of the Dead$0.17/1hr35h80.67%76.88%
- 20Dungeon of the ENDLESS$0.18/1hr17h85.22%85.25%
- 21Kingdom: New Lands$0.19/1hr8h85.26%85.32%
- 22Orcs Must Die!$0.20/1hr12h90.41%95.84%
- 23Warpips$0.20/1hr13h85.84%87.11%
- 24Stronghold: Definitive Edition$0.22/1hr20h85.87%86.53%
- 25Bloons TD 5$0.23/1hr18h90.63%94.68%
- 26Orcs Must Die! 2$0.23/1hr16h89.85%92.23%
- 27Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.23/1hr22h96.94%97.69%
- 28Dome Keeper$0.23/1hr20h90.14%92.35%
- 29Bad North: Jotunn Edition$0.27/1hr11h89.94%93.26%
- 30Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense$0.28/1hr36h89.88%93.65%
- 31Heretic's Fork$0.33/1hr15h85.52%84.90%
- 32X-Morph: Defense$0.33/1hr12h86.99%91.26%
- 33Orcs Must Die! 3$0.35/1hr22h85.82%85.85%
- 34Progressbar95$0.35/1hr11h88.12%96.14%
- 35Artisan TD$0.35/1hr24h85.50%86.78%
- 36Yet Another Zombie Defense HD$0.36/1hr2h84.33%82.05%
- 37Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense$0.38/1hr20h90.16%95.59%
- 38The Front$0.41/1hr25h75.58%66.63%
- 39Rock of Ages$0.41/1hr5h87.19%92.08%
- 40Ultimate Zombie Defense$0.42/1hr4h85.16%85.11%
- 41METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED$0.44/1hr23h83.38%69.43%
- 42Ship of Fools$0.45/1hr12h83.97%82.04%
- 43Thronefall$0.46/1hr17h92.88%96.13%
- 44Kingdom Eighties$0.49/1hr7h82.72%75.34%
- 45Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder$0.51/1hr6h85.38%85.90%
- 46Border Pioneer$0.53/1hr13h85.90%86.53%
- 47Nordhold$0.58/1hr17h85.53%86.56%
- 48Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 49Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville$0.68/1hr13h75.83%70.86%
- 50Ratropolis$0.83/1hr9h86.53%87.88%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.